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Title: Our navy in time of war (1861-1898)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Matthews, Franklin, 1858-1917. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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avy in this affair and with him AvasGeneral A. E. Burnside, who had twelve thousandsoldiers on transports. This expedition started fromNorfolk in January, 1862. There were one hundredand twenty vessels in it of all sorts. Practically nonewas fit for ocean service. They had to be of lightdraught, so as to get over the bars. All had tre-mendous guns on them, really too large for the boats.As in the case of the Port Royal expedition, a big-storm arose, but all the boats reached shelter inside theIlatteras sand strip with the exception of two smallones, of which one was the Pocahontas, carrying alot of horses. This vessel was lost. On February 5,18G2, the expedition started from ITatteras Island\l)^ the Paudico Sound to capture Roanoke Island.There were six forts on the island and the lower end FIGHTING ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST. 43 of it was a iiiarsli. At tlic upper end of the island theSouthern forces had assembled a fleet of half a dozensmall gunboats, which were hidden behind a lot of
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Scene of the battle of lloanoke J!>laii(l. sunken vessels and piles. Admiral Goldsboroughsships shelled the forts while the troops landed halfway 44 OUR NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. up the island. Tlic figliting lasted two davs. Tenthousand Xorthern troops who had been figliting over-came five thousand Southern troops, and the North-ern vessels broke through the l)arrier, across the soundfrom Roanoke Island to the mainland, and put theSouthern vessels to flight. The navy itself had sixmen killed, and the army had forty-one killed. TheNorthern forces took twenty-six hundred and seventy-five Southern men prisoners. The Southern ships, in the effort to escape, ran upthe Pasquotank River to Elizabeth City in NorthCarolina, where the Dismal Swamp Canal to Nor-folk had an outlet. The Northern ships were almostout of powder and shot. It was necessary to sink theSouthern ships, wdiich were drawn up in line acrossthe river behind Cobbs Point, by collision. TheSouthern ships began to shoot at the No

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